Susan Benkelman
@sbenkelman.bsky.social
Writer, editor. Westchester County, N.Y. after 28 years in D.C.
As a former Hill editor, I think this, by @schaffermichael.bsky.social, is well done.
I wrote about a very 2025 DC dillemma: An Elderly Lawmaker’s Staff Keeps Walking Back Things She Tells Reporters. Should They Keep Quoting Her? politi.co/4eHIHPq
An Elderly Lawmaker’s Staff Keeps Walking Back Things She Tells Reporters. Should They Keep Quoting Her?
A media conundrum for the age of gerontocracy.
politi.co
July 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As a former Hill editor, I think this, by @schaffermichael.bsky.social, is well done.
Reposted by Susan Benkelman
Impossible not to cry when you see your dad cry it's a thing I don't know it just is and by extension seeing his son cry because his dad cried and we've all been in that moment so now it's like a game of telephone but with crying
June 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Impossible not to cry when you see your dad cry it's a thing I don't know it just is and by extension seeing his son cry because his dad cried and we've all been in that moment so now it's like a game of telephone but with crying
Reposted by Susan Benkelman
This well-intentioned article is an example of what the American Press Institute terms the "understandability bias".
"Journalists try so hard to make sense of things that in trying to describe a conspiracy theory, they might do so in a way that makes it more reasonable than it actually is."
"Journalists try so hard to make sense of things that in trying to describe a conspiracy theory, they might do so in a way that makes it more reasonable than it actually is."
climate change? no. high winds and drought? no. DEI? yes.
right-wingers blame DEI for wildfires. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
right-wingers blame DEI for wildfires. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Right-wing influencers blame DEI programs for response to wildfires.
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This well-intentioned article is an example of what the American Press Institute terms the "understandability bias".
"Journalists try so hard to make sense of things that in trying to describe a conspiracy theory, they might do so in a way that makes it more reasonable than it actually is."
"Journalists try so hard to make sense of things that in trying to describe a conspiracy theory, they might do so in a way that makes it more reasonable than it actually is."